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vol. 1 [ 169 ] no. 22 the North-Carolina Magazine o r Universal Intelligencer from Friday, October 26 to, Friday, November 2, 1764
from the Monitor:
Get the sort or scheme of government be what it will those are ill governments where ill men govern or are generally employed in the offices of state yet this is an evil under the sun to which all things under the sun are subject not only by accident but even by natural difpofitions.
How can a prince, says Sir William Temple, choose well whom he employs when mens dispositions are so easily mistaken and their abilities too ? how deceitful are ap pearances ? how false arc men prosessions ? how hidden are their hearts ? how disguised their principals ? how uncertain their humours ? many men come out when they come into threat and public employments ; the weakness of whose heads or hearts would never have been discovered had they kept within their private spheres of life besides princes who see with other mens eyes and hear with other mens ears or are confined their choice of servants to a small number of courtiers who give their attendance about the court in order to advance themselves to honours to fortunes to places and employments do not always prefer the best and wishes to the great offices of state but most commonly the choose men the least worthy of the royal favour and confidence least capable to manage an important trust and better servants to their own private interest than to the government the needy the ambitious the half-witted the proud the conetous are ever restless to get into public enployments as are the froward the busy the bold the sufficient pursue their game with more passion endeavour application and thereby often succeed where better men would fail.
yet all these cover their intentions with most worthy pretenses and those patriotick sayings that men are not born for themselves.y and must sacarfice their lives for the public as well as their time and their health ; though it is certain they mean quite the contrary.
The danger in such a case arises from a faction between those subjects that would support government and those that would ruin it or rather between those that possess the honours and advantages of it ; and those that under pretence of reforming design chiefly to change the hands it is in and care little what becomes of the rest when these storms are raised the wife and the good are either disgraced or laid aside or retire of themselves and leave the scene free to such as are most eager and most active to get upon the stage this is such a danger as will sooner or later eat out the vitals of government unless the prince and state consull their own safety by avoiding all innovations in antient and es tablished forms and laws especially those concerning liberty property and religion and thereby leave the channel of known and common justice clean and undisturbed ; and by pursuing the true and common interest of the nation they govern without espousing any party except in such cases where they must incline to one or the other : then let them choose

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vol. 1 [ 169 ] no. 22 the North-Carolina Magazine o r Universal Intelligencer from Friday, October 26 to, Friday, November 2, 1764
from the Monitor:
Get the sort or scheme of government be what it will those are ill governments where ill men govern or are generally employed in the offices of state yet this is an evil under the sun to which all things under the sun are subject not only by accident but even by natural difpofitions.
How can a prince, says Sir William Temple, choose well whom he employs when mens dispositions are so easily mistaken and their abilities too ? how deceitful are ap pearances ? how false arc men prosessions ? how hidden are their hearts ? how disguised their principals ? how uncertain their humours ? many men come out when they come into threat and public employments ; the weakness of whose heads or hearts would never have been discovered had they kept within their private spheres of life besides princes who see with other mens eyes and hear with other mens ears or are confined their choice of servants to a small number of courtiers who give their attendance about the court in order to advance themselves to honours to fortunes to places and employments do not always prefer the best and wishes to the great offices of state but most commonly the choose men the least worthy of the royal favour and confidence least capable to manage an important trust and better servants to their own private interest than to the government the needy the ambitious the half-witted the proud the conetous are ever restless to get into public enployments as are the froward the busy the bold the sufficient pursue their game with more passion endeavour application and thereby often succeed where better men would fail.
yet all these cover their intentions with most worthy pretenses and those patriotick sayings that men are not born for themselves.y and must sacarfice their lives for the public as well as their time and their health ; though it is certain they mean quite the contrary.
The danger in such a case arises from a faction between those subjects that would support government and those that would ruin it or rather between those that possess the honours and advantages of it ; and those that under pretence of reforming design chiefly to change the hands it is in and care little what becomes of the rest when these storms are raised the wife and the good are either disgraced or laid aside or retire of themselves and leave the scene free to such as are most eager and most active to get upon the stage this is such a danger as will sooner or later eat out the vitals of government unless the prince and state consull their own safety by avoiding all innovations in antient and es tablished forms and laws especially those concerning liberty property and religion and thereby leave the channel of known and common justice clean and undisturbed ; and by pursuing the true and common interest of the nation they govern without espousing any party except in such cases where they must incline to one or the other : then let them choose